Page 11 of His Human to Adore

“This is Toron,” Erkoz introduces me to the alien, who pulls the chair out for me and then turns his attention to him. “My mate needs to speak with you. She is scheming something, and it involves you.”

Toron smiles even brighter at Kendra and then follows her to another table so they can discuss our plan. Hopefully, he agrees to it, even though it could mean he’d be upsetting one of his brothers. Erkoz and Xoth promised me that many of the demons would be willing to help show how dumb a brother is acting, but Toron or Yril would be the best to ask since they’re related to Dath. I want him to be angry, not angry enough to kill someone, but angry enough to realize that maybe he wants to mate with a human.

Yes, it only takes six days for me to decide that I’m willing to trick an alien lizard man into mating with me. I don’t want to talk about how easy I apparently am for a horned alien. Maybe the women on Earth were right about us being eager for aliens. The thought has a flush warming my cheeks and a giggle escaping from my lips.

“Kendra told me you wanted to explain mating to me?” I turn to Olivia. Her cheeks turn a bright pink color when a few demons laugh at my question. “What? Is it supposed to be private?”

“Human females normally think so, yes,” another demon answers, but I don’t know his name. “You do not turn pink like the others, so we do not know if you are embarrassed or not, but the talk of mating usually makes the others turn pink.”

“It’s fine,” Olivia waves her hands in front of her like she’s trying to rid herself of the embarrassment that marks her cheeks. “We need to go talk over by the hall, though. Your mate is about to be released from his room, and I don’t want him to get too close to you until we’re sure he won’t attack you the first chance he gets.”

“Attack her?” A few of the demons ask, their eyes flashing red. “He would never.”

Olivia rubs her temples. “Sorry, no, you’re right. I meant sexually, not like he’d actually hurt his mate.”

The other demons nod, appreciating that we don’t think Dath is actually going to attack me, but her pink cheeks show off both of our embarrassment at the mention of him not being able to stop himself from being sexually attracted to me. The fact that the other demons just nod along with it also makes me think they think he might try to jump me the first moment he sees me, too. I don’t exactly hate that idea.

Olivia stands from her mate’s lap and walks around the table to grab me. “We can stay in here until I know whether you’re safe, but I want to be close to the new human room since it has a lock on it.”

“New human room?”

“The room you would have slept in the first night if Diane and her mate weren’t stuck here. He’s a little anal about things, and one of those was making sure his mate didn’t have to share a room with anyone else when they were trapped here.” Olivia rolls her eyes. “If he didn’t do that, we may not even be in such a pickle with you and your mate.”

“Why don’t any of you use his name?” I ask. I’ve been meaning to ask it for a while since none of the women say any of the men’s names unless it’s their own mate. I don’t hate that they call Dath my mate, but I don’t know why they don’t call him by his name since it’s easier.

“That’s one of the things we need to talk about.”

Olivia spends the next ten minutes explaining to me all the normal mating customs they’ve learned since being on the planet. Saying the name of someone of the other sex alerts them to your willingness to share a bed with them, which explains why no one says my name and why the women don’t say the name of anyone but their mates. In order to mate with one of the demons, we’re supposed to eat their semen and then call ourselves theirs. I thought it’d be like some normal wedding ceremony. I didn’t think I’d need to suck on an alien’s dick to mate with him, but all the other women have apparently done it, and they don’t seem traumatized.

She’s about to explain to me what happened to all of their females when I feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. The emptiness in my chest is filled with a warmth that moves through me and fills me completely. I don’t want to turn around because I don’t want to be disappointed if what Kendra warned me about ends up being true. I can’t stop myself, though.

I turn slowly and scan the dining room until my eyes land on deep red, angry eyes that pierce me down to my soul. Dath doesn’t look happy to see me. No, he looks so unbelievably angry that if I wasn’t feeling all the butterflies in my stomach, I’d be shaking in fear. His jaw ticks back and forth, but his eyes never leave mine as he walks through the dining hall until he’s standing beside Erkoz and Kendra. He sits down in the seat next to them and then pulls Kendra into his lap like I mean absolutely nothing to him. I see his nostrils flare as pain ignites his nerves, but he’s just as stubborn as Kendra said he’d be.

Tears prick at my eyes, but I’m not about to cry for some demon who’s trying to convince himself he isn’t my mate, even though he’s in pain by not being with me. I know he can feel the pull to me because I’ve felt nothing so strong in my life. Even the warmth in my chest is growing just by being in his presence, so he must notice it, too.

“Come, little human,” Toron kneels down in front of me and offers me his hand. “We will make sure he regrets being a fool, yes?”

I steel my resolve and nod my head before bracing myself for the pain about singe my nerves when I touch Toron’s hand. I force a smile onto my lips right as I touch his cool scales, and the fire that burns my skin is endured so I can prove to this stupid demon that he wants me, even if I have to piss him off to get him to realize it.

Dath

Thegoddesshasforsakenme. She has forsaken me, punished me, and determined I am the male who will take the brunt of her fury for the rest of my life.

There is no other explanation I can think of.

First, my mother shows me I am not meant to take a human mate by bringing a terrible storm many days too soon since we are far from the storm season. Then I am graced by the most beautiful human female I could have ever imagined in my dreams, who soothed my nightmares and made me feel complete. Then, when I am finally starting to feel better, and the hole in my chest is being filled, I see that same human from my dreams here in my home, and I know she is not to be mine.

I do not know why I walk over to Kendra and pull her into my lap, even though I know it will hurt. I don’t think about anything other than how much I need to get the beautiful, dark human out of my mind. But it is impossible when I cannot take my eyes off of her. Even with Kendra in my lap, the burning of my scales is excruciating, but I can tell I have hurt the new female’s feelings by doing it.

Good, I need her not to want me, so I do not have to deny her advances if she tries to be with me. I doubt I will be able to be a strong male if she were to pursue me. I am only strong now because I can feel my mother’s wrath when I feel the pain under my scales.

“You’re an idiot,” Kendra mumbles in my lap. She doesn’t touch me like she normally does when she is in my lap. No, she just sits there awkwardly, like she wants to be there about as much as I want her there. She doesn’t make a move to leave, and I don’t force her from my lap either.

I’m trying to ignore the feeling of warmth in my chest when the new female looks into my eyes, but it is so hard since I cannot seem to take my eyes off of her. When my vision of her is obstructed by Toron kneeling in front of her, my entire body tenses and my lips peel back in a snarl.

No one can touch her. No one can entertain her. No one can look at her except for me. No one.

She does not seem to realize this yet because I watch as she walks, hand in hand with Toron, to a seat across the dining hall. My hands are shaking as I watch him pull her into his lap. I want to stand, but Kendra is still on my lap, and I do not want to let her fall to the ground. The pain of touching her is too much, though.

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